Contact
Office 360 Leith Street, room 1S.10
Tel +64 21 220 7101
Email rebecca.james@otago.ac.nz
Academic qualifications
- BSc in Botany, minor Statistics, University of Otago
- MSc in Marine Botany, University of Otago
- PhD in Science, University of Groningen and The Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Institute (NIOZ), The Netherlands
Research interests
Rebecca's research focuses on coastal sediment processes, from physical transport to biogeochemical cycling of carbon and nutrients. She is particularly interested in the feedbacks within marine vegetated ecosystems, and in exploring nature-based solutions to mitigate land run-off, coastal flooding, erosion and climate change, with the goal of building community resilience and supporting mahinga kai.
Courses
- MARI 112 Marine Biology: The Living Ocean (Paper Co-odinator)
- MARI 322 Coastal and Shelf Seas Oceanography
- ECOL 211 Community Ecology
Current postgraduate students
- Alexandra Faulkner, MSc: Investigating nutrient and carbon cycling in sediments after organic matter additions
- Nieve Nicholas, Honors: Determining coastal nutrient inputs from terrestrial organic matter degradation
Publications
James, R. K., Hepburn, C. D., Pritchard, D., Richards, D. K., & Hurd, C. L. (2022). Water motion and pH jointly impact the availability of dissolved inorganic carbon to macroalgae. Scientific Reports, 12, 21947. doi: 10.1038/s41598-022-26517-z Journal - Research Article
James, R. K., Hepburn, C. D., Cornwall, C. E., McGraw, C. M., & Hurd, C. L. (2014). Growth response of an early successional assemblage of coralline algae and benthic diatoms to ocean acidification. Marine Biology, 161(7), 1687-1696. doi: 10.1007/s00227-014-2453-3 Journal - Research Article
James, R., Hurd, C., & Hepburn, C. (2011). Carbon limitation in macroalgal communities and their response to ocean acidification. Proceedings of the New Zealand Marine Sciences Society (NZMSS) Conference: Understanding, Managing, and Conserving our Marine Environment. (pp. 13). Retrieved from http://nzmss.org/assets/Conference/NZMSS2011AbstractsOralPresentations.pdf Conference Contribution - Published proceedings: Abstract